I'm in North Carolina, and about 200 miles away from the path of totality for todays solar eclipse. The forecasts for anything reasonably close to me were partly cloudy at best, so I didn't even make the attempt at going.

But I woke up from the night shift about 2:45 pm this afternoon, and I was startled for a bit about how dark it was. "Jeez, it must be a hell of a thundercloud to make it this dark... HOLY CARP, THE ECLIPSE!"

I ran outside to a mostly sunny day (here) but the light had a weird quality, as if it was a bright artificial light instead of sunshine. I ran back inside to grab my binoculars and phone, projected the images onto the hood of my white car and posted a pic here for your amusement.

Well, darn, I can't get "Attach files" to do anything, and there isn't any "Formatting help" button any more, but here's a url on the web.

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There wasn't really any eclipse here because it was cloudy, but I took a picture out of the office window at the point when the sun would have been obscured the most. And it was a very unusual sight since normally there are no people out on the street in this district of Columbus...

But yea! The thing I noticed the most was like you said, an artificial lighting. It was almost like everything was more gray, or the dynamic range had been reduced (lighter darks, darker lights), but different than anything else I had seen. Was pretty neat

I have more fun showing my neighbours who came over to check out what I was looking at and talking with them. Some guys cross the street from me who work in a car garage brought out their welding mask and were passing it around to check it out which I got a kick out of. We need more things like this to bring people out of their houses and talking to each other.

I didn't bother with it. The moon passing between the earth and sun to block the light for a few minutes. Nothing impressive to me since, with my size, I can achieve the same effect simply by getting between my wife and a lamp. No worry about damaging my eyes either.

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Oh well, it's only one of the most impressive astronomical sights there are.{"name":"Eeyore_3.jpg","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/0\/c\/0c999cd9e11020ae091615b2e8beb143.jpg","w":677,"h":507,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/0\/c\/0c999cd9e11020ae091615b2e8beb143"}

Me I'm waiting for a supernova; yeah!

But the eclipse was pretty good.

I got a pic, but it's still on the memory card. Maybe later tonight I'll upload it.

Something else I don't bother with. My time is spent entirely on taking care of wife and son. For example, changing the gauze around his trach, cutting his hear (shaving it all off), and giving him a bath takes a little more than 2 hours.

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Yeah, I couldn't do that with my shadow because that shadow is way thinner than my shadow.

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